University Assistant Professor in Photonic Devices and Systems

Academic Division: Electrical Engineering

Email: qc223@eng.cam.ac.uk

Research interests

Qixiang CHENG received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 2015, researching InP-based photonic integrated circuits for optical switching. He was a Research Scientist with the Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, where he led the research effort in silicon photonic device design, layout, packaging and testing. He was heavily involved in nation-wide projects funded by ARPA-E, NSF, and DARPA in the US. In Jan 2020, he returned to the University of Cambridge as a University Lecturer and his current research focuses on developing system-wide photonic integrated circuits for optical communication, sensing, and optical computing applications, exploiting a number of photonic integration platforms, including InP, silicon, as well as Si-InP, Si-SiN, and photonic-electronic hybrid integration schemes. He currently serves as a committee member for OFC, CLEO-PR, ECIO, and Photonics West, and he is a guest editor for APL Photonics. He is an author of in excess of 110 refereed journal and conference papers.

Qixiang is elected fellow of Fitzwilliam College.

Research projects

EC Horizon project: Packaging of novel Ultra-dyNamiC pHotonic switches and transceivers for integration into 5G radio access network and datacenter sub-systems (PUNCH);

EU H2020 project: InP on SiN Photonic Integrated circuits REalized through wafer-scale micro-transfer printing (INSPIRE);

Innovate UK: Integrated Photonic Switched Entangler for Quantum Networking (Medusa);

Industry-funded project: Optical linear processors using advanced photonic integrated technologies;

Industry-funded project: Gain-Integrated polArizatioN-insensiTive optical switch (GIANT);

(Co-I) UK EPSRC project: QUantum Dot On Silicon systems for communications, information processing and sensing (QUDOS);

Teaching activity

Ph.D. candidates on related topics are actively sought after and please contact Dr. Cheng for further details.